CAIRO, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Iran recorded on Wednesday 279 deaths related to COVID-19 during the past 24 hours, the highest daily fatalities in the country, raising the death toll to 29,349. Meanwhile, the total number of deaths from the virus in Iraq exceeded 10,000.
Iran, the hardest-hit country in the Middle East region, reported 4,830 new cases, bringing the tally of infections to 513,219. The new 279 deaths took the overall death toll of the pandemic in Iran to 29,349, while a total of 414,831 coronavirus patients have recovered.
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